Garment-holder



No. 608,498. Patented Aug. 2, i898.

E. S. WEST.

GARMENT HOLDER.

(Appuc'atian med may 7, 1891.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT trice.

EUGENE S. W'EST, OF MARINETTE, VISCONSIN.

GARMEpNT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,498, dated August 2, 1898.

` Application filed. May 7, 1897. Serial No.'635,466 (No model.)

To all whom it may con/cern.-

Beit known that I, EUGENE S.WEsT, a citizen of the United States,residin g at Marinette, in the county of Marinette, State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Ad vert-ising-Rack and Garment-Holder, of which the following is aspecification.

An object of this invention is to produce an advertising-rack for use in barber-shops and other places, said rack having a holder or a'series of holders for a hat, coat, and umbrella, either for all three of these articles or any less number of them, said holder being adapted to be locked, so as to retain` the articles more permanently, not so much with any idea of guarding against theft as against accidents, and also to produce a convenient and novel attraction from the fact that one feature of the invention consists of a key, which, being numbered, serves as a check showing a claim the party has who holds the key or check on the contents of the holder which said key will unlock.

Another object consists in the production of the holderindependently of the advertisingrack.

In the drawings forming apart of this speci- Iication, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the rack; Fig. 2, a broken detailed portion of the lower left-hand corner of Fig. 1 in enlarged perspective; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section on line a a in Fig. 2,'showing the operation of the locking portion of the holder; and Fig. 4 is a section on line c c in Fig.l 3, looking from a point above.

Referring to the parts of the drawings pointed out by numerals, 5 is the advertising rack, having upper compartments 8 and compartments 10 for holding advertising-cards or advertisements otherwise-prepared and a base 6, to which base the holders are attached. The compartments 10 alternate with mirrors 9; but of course this is a matter of choice, as Fig. 1 is merely designed to show the idea, which can be modiiied to suit the taste of the user. In Fig. 1 is shown a series of these holders 7 on the base portion 6 of the rack 5. In Fig. 2 one of these holders, enlarged, is shown as in use. As many may be used as desired on a single rack. I will now proceed to describe one of the racks, they being all alike. A lock-arm has four branches, one,

14 onto its hook, as at 187 another 19 extending in the opposite direction to hold the umbrella 15 in its clasp 16, another at 21 extending loosely down through an elongated slot 22 in the top of the box or case 2O and pivotcd in the box at 17. The lower end of the pivoted end 21 is serrated at 2l. At 24 is a lever pivoted in box 20 at 25, said lever being' heaviest at right-hand end, the other end being adapted to engage the serrations 21. As in Fig. 3, the lock-arm is in its locked position, the right-hand end of the llever 24 being helddown by gravity.

Each box is provided with a keyhole 27 in the front end. By placing the key 28 in the keyhole and pushing it back until its rear end comes beneath the heaviest end of the lever 24, as in Figs. 3 and 4, the lever will be tripped, disengaging it from the serrated end 21, and the lock-arm will lfall back tothe position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, or if it does not fall back to this position itself it can be carried back by theparty having the key 28 after he unlocks the holder. A hat-support consisting of the upper loops 30, from which extends downwardly a loop 31, all in the ordinary manner per se of V'hat-holders already in use, is attached to the base 6 over the lockarm. The upper end of the arm 12 has a rubber tip 32, which rests against the rim-of the hat, as in Fig. 2, when in its locked position. o In the operation a party coming into the shop removes a key 28 from a box 20, which unlocks the holder 7, places his hat in the support so the brim will come in the loops 30 and the crown resting in the loop or bow 31, places his umbrella 15 into the clasp 16, hangs his coat 14 on the hook, and then raises the lock-arm until the point 32 presses against the hat-brim, as in Fig. 2. At this time the lock will automatically lock owing to the gravity attraction of the heaviest end of the lever 24, land the arms 18 and 19 will come against the coat and umbrella, locking them in, as in Fig. 2.

It shouldhave been stated that the keys are designed to be made all dier'ently. In Fig. 4 the key 28 has three slots and prongs.

Each side of these slots straddles the studs 33 in the bottom of the box. The keys 2S are numbered, and the boxes they lit bear corresponding numbers, asin Figs. 2 and 4, so the operator will know which particular box the key he may have is for. rl`he holes into which the key is to be inserted maybe different in each box, so no key can be inserted into the wrong box.

The elastic rubber tip 32 of the arm 12 permits the operator to crowd the arm l2 tight against the rim of the hat and not in j ure it, and by this means he can effect a tighter locking of the hat, as it enables him to sometimes gain an extra scrration on the lower end of the arm 21.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Leiters Patent of the United States, is-

The combination oi a suitable support, a box or case attached thereto, a hat-supporting loop and coat and umbrella holder all attached to said support, an arm having the prongs for contacting with the articles on said support to hold them in place, said arm being pivoted in the box or case and having its lower end provided with serrations or teeth, and a lever in said box or case pivoted between its two ends so that one end will be the heaviest and fall by gravity causing the other end to engage the serrations of the arm, said lever being adapted to be disengaged by the insertion of a key in the manner shown substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hercunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE S. WEST.

\Vitnesses:

Gmo. lnNNYHoFF, MAX HAHN. 

